Author: Sasha Angus

  • National Portrait Gallery

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    Central image on the right: Gillian Wearing (\’Me as Julia Margaret Cameron and two muses\’) © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London.

    Beautiful animations, crisp documentary films, and evocative interactives invite visitors to engage with the collection in a new light. We worked with NPG staff to build trust, establish shared foundations, involve key stakeholders in the process, and deliver experiences that meet the diverse requirements of curators, board members, and experts from a range of fields.

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    Fresh Experiential Opportunities

    Massive, animated projections of some of the Gallery’s most famous portraits greet visitors as they enter and ascend to the first floor. As these portraits come to life, they set the tone for the visitors’ entire visit.

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    Top left image: Demonstration of Anti-Racist Committee of Asians in East London (including Mala Sen and Chomok Ali Noor) © Paul Trevor.

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    The ambitious interactive—“Playful Portraits”—allows visitors to manipulate a portrait with their facial gestures. Our solution-integrated, AI-supported camera tracks visitors’ facial expressions and map them onto the portrait.

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